Best Picture Ballot

[Okri]

01. Past Lives
02. Oppenheimer
03. Poor Things
04. Killers of the Flower Moon
05. The Zone of Interest
06. Anatomy of a Fall
07. Barbie
08. American Fiction
09. Maestro
10. The Holdovers

Subject to change, as always.

[CalWilliam]

Great lineup.

1. Killers of the Flower Moon
2. Poor Things
3. The Holdovers
4. Barbie
5. Oppenheimer
6. Past Lives
7. Maestro
8. American Fiction
9. Anatomy of a Fall
10. The Zone of Interest

[Mister Tee]

Even though I checked off my last of the ten contenders two weeks ago, I've held off formulating the 1-10 ranking because it wasn't very clear in my head. Much like the past few years, the very top of the list (1-2 or -3) was easy to settle on, but it became murky thereafter.

The big difference: the past three races, I was basically indifferent to anything beyond the top choices, and didn't much care about the order of what followed. This year, the opposite: I like everything on the list to one degree or another (plus a few that didn't make it: All of Us Strangers, May December), and have difficulty slotting one over or under the other.

So, my final/tentative take, with the caveat that pretty much the whole list would have been at least top 5 in any of 2020-2022.

1. Past Lives
2. Anatomy of a Fall
3. Poor Things
4. Oppenheimer
5. Killers of the Flower Moon
6. American Fiction
7. Barbie
8. The Zone of Interest
9. The Holdovers
10. Maestro